Within the passage, lightning-serpent-like radiance flashed, streaking nearly ten li at a time. Yet that streak of white flame clung stubbornly behind the lightning, and wherever it passed, the tunnel walls turned to molten slurry, gathering into a stream of magma that surged after Ye Zhen's lightning form!
Very quickly, Ye Zhen darted back to the fork in the road.
That fork abruptly checked Ye Zhen's smooth, flowing movement. Should he return to the great formation space along the original route, or turn into another unknown branch passage?
At this life-or-death juncture, Ye Zhen had no time to deliberate.
His body paused for only an instant before turning into the branch passage he had never entered before.
The reason for this choice was simple—if he returned the way he came, Ye Zhen could already foresee his fate.
There was an eight- or nine-in-ten chance that the Innate Bone-Adhering Phosphor Fire Spirit would burn him alive into ashes before the cyan protective light curtain leading to the Secret Realm in another dimension.
The Innate Bone-Adhering Phosphor Fire Spirit was pursuing him too closely. Ye Zhen did not even have time to burrow underground and hide.
Entering that unknown branch passage was different. An unknown road might lead to certain death, but it might also hold a sliver of life!
Heaven never bars every road to a man. At this point, Ye Zhen could only stake his life on it.
Although Ye Zhen had essentially wasted no time at the fork, his body merely hitching for that instant before smoothly turning into the branch passage he had never visited—
That single instant allowed the relentlessly pursuing Innate Bone-Adhering Phosphor Fire Spirit to close to within one li of him!
With a whoosh, the Innate Bone-Adhering Phosphor Fire Spirit opened its mouth and